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Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
ISSUE #013 - HERRI
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theory
Gilles Deleuze and the Third Schema of Perception: time, sense, idea trapped in crystals
From Bergson's coexistence of the past with the present Deleuze produces a preexistent past. Or, cinema produces it for him, in that it lets him see the past stand out before the present. The question is, was it, so to speak, already there? Was it there for Deleuze
"The crisis continues..."
IT IS WHAT IT IS: recognition in cinema and AI is automated
The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2
Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1
the painter of mental scenery
journal
R.I.P. RyΕ« Murakami, ζδΈ ιΎ, 19 February 1952β17 October 2026
Murakami's first short novel, pictured above, is structurally perfect. At least I consider it, alongside Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, to be structurally perfect, and this to be the result, in both cases, of a crystalline clarity of expression. The
... "it's hardly clear what good any novel can do for the poor, displaced people now picking their way through ... rubble." E. Frank, Stranger than Fiction, 2024, p. 303
the books were never meant to balance
now some words from Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book ...
Requiescat In Natura: Wendell Berry 5 August 1934β31 August 2026
βI donβt think character exists anymore.β βRachel Cusk
Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images
poetry
August 2026
how can such sheer physical beauty
ββββββbe guarded , coupled with so crabbed and servile an existence ,
as to hunt in the rubbish dumps of all the world
ββββfor what has been used up and most despoiled
ββββββββfor cracked and injured minds,
ββββto its own injuryββand the injury of its
SYMPHONY
Political Works
moieties*
A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents
enantiomorphosis: the messianic | DanaΓ«, or resistance
a journey (2016)
otherwriting
A Delicious Event
after Samanta Schweblin
The idea began as a recipe and became a recipe for writing a short fiction. Credit goes to Carmela Padua for the idea, which I connected to an interview with Samanta Schweblin in Bomb magazine. (Issue 173 / Fall 2025, pp. 40β47; online) In the interview she
I Am Out of Control of My Own Material
The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity
correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."
progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination
simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency
